I have a Cuisinart electric kettle that has six presets. In the seven years I’ve owned it, it’s been used at least twice a day, and often more. It works great, though I was annoyed to learn that yes, French press coffee really is better when made at the slightly below boiling point that it can do. I had so many years of drinking coffee that could have been made better if I had just bought it earlier.
Does Tailscale count as a VPN for you? It’s how I roll. Well, I run my own headscale server, but the free Tailscale tier is going to be fine for any reasonably sized personal project.
In college, my advisor/boss was basically the emacs guy, so I picked up enough to do some basic text editing but didn’t go further because I didn’t feel like spending hours reading man pages.
Later I worked at a place where a shared computer only had vi, so same story. I learned about a half dozen commands and left it with that.
Then I went though a series of other editors and IDEs at different jobs, Notepad++, StyledEdit, CodeWarrior, CodeComposer, some weird proprietary Netbeans based thing, VS Code, etc. I still used vi for minor config editing on the occasional remote machine.
Then I got a job where I would be doing a ton of work on headless remotes, so I decided to get serious about learning something purely terminal based. I tried a couple of things, but ended up with Helix because: 0. it runs pretty great on my 15 year old laptop
Now I’m all helix all the time and really enjoying it.
Same. Every machine I have control of I install Helix. For the rest, I remember just enough vi to do what I need and get out.
Just use M-x M-butterfly
Not yet, but I’ve spoken with Wicks staffers responsible for writing the bill. They are very aware of the open source issues and working on getting changes implemented during the current legislative session.
Looking back… none of them. I had an OG Gameboy, GBA, PS2, Wii, 3DS, and now a Switch 2. My favorite was probably either the first Gameboy or the 3DS. I loved all of the weird streetpass stuff when I was traveling for work. But I have great memories of all of them, and the S2 has been a lot of fun with my kids.
Be was the best desktop OS of all time. It’s not even close.
Same here. I have been moving everything I can to self hosted FOSS, contributing to FOSS projects, and rehabbing old hardware. It’s been fun, I’ve met people from around the world and I’m getting tools I like to be even better.
Locally, I’m working with the library to start Linux days, where we help fix old computers and move them to Linux. There’s been a lot of interest due to Win11.
Oh yeah. I’ve had to do a small amount of it on much simpler systems for work from time to time, and it’s always been damn hard. Often rewarding in a weird way, but very difficult.
I had a problem on my work laptop with them about five years ago, but rolling back fixed it. Never on my personal machines.
Edit: TBF, I’ve never had a personal laptop with an nVidia card. I generally prefer to build my own desktops, though I do have a laptop. It has an AMD GPU, also with no problems.
Eight megabytes and continuously swapping. ;)
What do you think Project Support is?
How many colors? Why that hurricane tracker could display a glorious 16 colors at a time! And an astounding 64000 pixels! And if I borrowed my friend’s modem, we could dial up the local Sears to get the latest storm info at a blazing 300baud! Truly, it was an amazing machine.
My partner bought a Skylight screen a month ago. I put it up, but it’s basically been unused since.
For me, there was this very early health tracking watch I got, which was so fragile that it would reset and lose all data if I did anything more active than walking.
Some Google TV that was well reviewed, but at some point shortly after I got it had a software update that made the UI unusablly slow. Like, 5-10 seconds to respond to every button click.
“Only” 8MB. Oh, you sweet summer child. I remember when 8MB seemed like so much of an upgrade from my previous computer, which had 256k. And the one with 256k had a full hurricane tracker running on it.
Eh, that looks like typical take home for a staff level engineer in a big city.
Edit: Assuming they get paid every two weeks, that’s an annual take home of $161,122. Depending on state taxes, insurance coverage, 401k contributions, dependents, etc, that’s a base salary of $200-250k. Which, yeah, that’s what I budget for a staff salary.
That’s the one, and it’s still great.